Games like High Rice
Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to High Rice for fans of strategy, indie, simulation, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in High Rice also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About High Rice: In this short incremental farming game, you will plant rice on a rooftop, create various goods out of it, automate using robot helpers and watch the citizens of the hidden cyberpunk city evolve as they patronize your products.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Bottled by Bears
Top pick for High Rice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with High Rice.
Join a family of bears and run the buzziest little honey farm! Collect and discover rare bees, bottle honey jars, expand your farm, and watch your flowery field bloom in this cozy idle management sim.
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Feed The Forest
Second-strongest match for High Rice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with High Rice.
A short, innocent incremental forest-builder. Unlock snail powers to spread life in a barren desert. Feed the mysterious Forest with juice. And remember: Blood is a type of juice.
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Sludgineers
Third-strongest match for High Rice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with High Rice.
Clean, mine and refine pollution in this active incremental game. Cruise through the countryside earning cash and resources, build a refinery, process materials, upgrade equipment, unlock new areas and complete quests.
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Working Class Monsters
Ranked #4 for High Rice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with High Rice.
Open packs. Collect monsters. Watch the gold pile up. A cozy incremental about a monster workforce - place goblins, undead, and abyssal horrors across tiles where the right neighbors mean bigger payouts. Grow your sleepy island into a gold printing empire and unlock hidden islands to settle on.
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Rusty's Retirement
Ranked #5 for High Rice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with High Rice.
A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
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It's Chopping Time!
Ranked #6 for High Rice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with High Rice.
Summon the mighty power of gods in this fun incremental game about chopping down trees on a secluded island by using the forces of nature: earthquakes, sunbeams, tornadoes, hail, lightning strikes and tidal waves! It's Chopping Time!
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Cozy Sanctuary
Ranked #7 for High Rice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with High Rice.
Cozy Sanctuary is a relaxing pet simulation game where you care for adorable animals living at the bottom of your screen. Grow their food, and keep them happy and fed to attract even more furry friends! They'll stay out of your way while you work or study, but don't forget to give them attention!
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Slice the Crops!
Ranked #8 for High Rice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with High Rice.
Slice, earn, upgrade, repeat. Slice mutant fruits in an addicting incremental game! Annihilate armies of unique mutant crops, dive into a deep talent tree, unlock new levels, and research powerful fruit mutations to maximize your harvest and dominate the farm.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with High Rice.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with High Rice.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with High Rice.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with High Rice.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with High Rice.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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The Looker
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with High Rice.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with High Rice.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about High Rice
- What games are most similar to High Rice?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside High Rice are Bottled by Bears, Feed The Forest, Sludgineers.
- Who developed High Rice?
- High Rice was developed by Juan Paolo Escopete.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on High Rice.
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